captioning made possible by johnson & johnson, where quality products for the american family have been a tradition for generations ♪ >> osgood: good morning. i'm charles osgood and this is sunday morning. a special edition, by design. this morning, we're in miami beach on the roof of the new

world center designed by architect frank gehry, an example of miami's cutting-edge design. but not far off are the art deco hotels of an earlier era, restored and enjoying a vibrant second life. often what's new is old and what's old is new as tracy smith will report in our cover story. >> reporter: they just don't make buildings like they used to, but now a new york design team is getting attention for trying. this was nothing? i mean, you built this from the ground up. >> the more perfect version of the past. >> reporter: so it's nostalgia perfected. >> that's exactly right. reporter: ahead on "sunday morning," what's new is old. >> spend any time here and you can't help but notice the role color plays in design and in our responses to it. susan spencer will be taking a

look at that. >> you think you're going into a deep, dark space. >> reporter: what's on your walls? what's on your shelves? what pleases your eyes may be playing tricks on your mind. >> it shapes how energized we feel. it shapes how much attention we pay in various situations. it shapes how aggressive we are. >> reporter: paint your walls, haing your mood. the psychology of design ahead on sunday morning. >> osgood: miami beach is on the cutting edge of style and fashion as is entertainer jennifer lopez, a designer in her own right. this morning j-lo talks to our lee cowan. >> she's the reason that women run it. >> reporter: with her newest single out just this past week, jennifer lopez is all music. but get her talking about design and she gets almost giddy. >> you know, your juices start flowing in a way you kind of like it just starts going. this goes with this and this happens with this.

>> reporter: j-lo rocks the business of design ahead on sunday morning. >> osgood: tea time has a special meaning in florida, home to nearly 1500 golf courses. design is an important part of any course from the large to the downright miniature. the sort of course bill geist has been checking out. >> reporter: designing miniature golf courses might not seem terribly important, but try telling that to the owners of barnacle bill's, a 50-year-old course that was washed away last fall by hurricane sandy. barnacle bill here gets back on his feet later on sunday morning. let me give you a hand, bill. >> osgood: that's just for starters. martha teichner looks up to birth houses. seth doane finds an old neighborhood in china enjoying new life. erin moriarty take us on a tour

of imaginative roof gardens. richard schlesinger wanders through state-of-the-art offices. first the sunday morning headlines. >> good morning. it's may 19, 2013. the investigation into what caused a commuter train collision in connecticut friday now centers on a broken rail. no one was killed when two trains packed with commuters collided, but more than 70 people were sent to hospitals. officials don't know when train service will be restored. some 60 people were injured at a parade in the virginia mountain town of damascus yesterday when an elderly man drove his car into a group of marchers. some of the injuries are said to be critical. students at hofstra university on new york's long island will be wearing white ribbons in memory of andrea rebello. the 21-year-old was being held by a masked home invader friday when police arrived. an officer opened fire killing the intruder and the woman. the preakness was run yesterday

in baltimore. a 15-to-1 long shot oxbow crossed the finish line first. last certainly not least we still don't know who won last night's $590 million power ball lottery but we do know there was only one winner. the ticket was sold at this store in zephyrhills, florida, near tampa. now for the weather. today's forecast is no winner. the sun will shine out west but for most of us it will be a rainy sunday. the week ahead should be cooler, calmer and considerably dryer. ♪ waiting for... >> osgood: ahead, john fer lopez. >> in the bedding and in the house... >> osgood: ... designing woman. reporter: how do you feel walking into this,,,,,,,,,,,,

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this is the pursuit of perfection. >> osgood: they are a sun-seekers' destination on the florida coast. miami and miami beach draw millions each year. a vacation paradise by design. a metropolis today, the city of miami wasn't incorporated until 1896. across the bay, an island known simply as a beach was a tangle of mangoes but by the 1920s, miami beach had become america's

most fashionable destination. even the depression couldn't slow its growth with hotels and homes sprouting up in the style of the day, art deco. still, trends come and go. with the opening of miami beach's hotel in 1954, the art deco district seemed hopelessly dated, sliding into decay. >> freeze. miami vice! >> osgood: that is, until a 1980s television show made a virtue of the city's pre- notoriety for vice. even the opening credits celebrated the new miamiment remember the building with the hole in it? it's still there. infused with energy and style from south america and the caribbean, the region is now billed as the capital of the americas. and these days, a capital of design. ♪ all night on the beach ♪ i'm going to miami

>> osgood: once considered long past their prime, these art deco buildings of the 1930s are once again the pride of miami beach. prime examples of the principle that what's old is new and what's new is old. here with our cover story is tracy smith. >> grand central terminal stands as one of our great city landmarks. at least it stands as of this moment. >> reporter: it was built to stand for centuries. but by 1969, new york's grand central terminal was in trouble. >> tomorrow the landmarks preservation commission begins a hearing that could result in grand central's terminal being sent the way of the brokaw mansions and the old pen station. remember them? >> reporter: kent barwick did. he led an effort to save the old building from developers. >> one time they wantedded to put three levels of bowling

alleys in this room -- an idea that happily got laughed out town. >> reporter: bowling alleys? bowling alleys. but their big idea was to put a tower above this building and destroy this room. >> reporter: this is what might have been. a high-rise office building rising out of the terminal's remains. after a major court battle and a little help from jacqueline onassis, grand central was saved. today that decision seems like a no-brainer. but in general, historic preservation is, at best, a tricky business. at this point, how do we decide what to save? >> we want to save the best of every period ideally. we also want to protect certain kinds of neighborhoods like beacon hill in boston or georgetown in washington. that's really important. >> reporter: paul goldberger is architecture critic for vanity fair. >> the dark underside of historic preservation is that we

often preserve not so much because we love what we're protecting. it's because we fear what will replace it. unfortunately, we've been right a lot of the time. >> reporter: those fears are justified. >> those fears are often justified. >> reporter: a case in point, madison square garden which was built on the spot where the magnificent penn station once stood. they may not make 'em like they used to, but that doesn't mean no one is trying. this was nothing? i mean, you had built this from the ground up. the buildings on this street in downtown new york are well over 100 years old except for the one on the corner. it's nearly new. but built the old-fashioned way. with old-fashioned bricks. >> all our bricks were dead stock. that means bricks that hadn't been used since 1950. no exaggeration.

>> reporter: robin and steven are founders of the design firm roman and williams. >> to do a really good brick building with wood windows right now. >> reporter: when the place was finished in 2009, people just thought it had always been there. >> when we took the scaffolding down, they just thought we had cleaned the building. >> reporter: but you built it from nothing. >> totally ground up. reporter: this an age of generic glass buildings their designs evoke a sense of personality and permanence. >> we feel that we can build a building right now with current materials that could last 400-500 years without a problem. >> reporter: ironically their first buildings were meant to be torn down. they built movie sets including this house for the 1998 film "practical magic." >> 30 people have called us and said where is that house? i love that house. i want that house. i mean there's a whole website devoted to the kitchen. >> reporter: now instead of designing things that last

forever on film, they design buildings they hope will just plain last. how do you feel walking into this place? >> we love it. reporter: at new york's historic building the interior they designed for the brand new lay fayette restaurant uses the same materials that might have been found when the building was built in the 1880s, but it only feels old. interesting walking through here. it looks like this place has been here forever. yet it's been open how many weeks? >> two. weeks. roman and williams are really really good at understanding what kind of visceral thing we have inside us that makes us respond to certain things. beautiful things that are sort of what you remember but they're actually really better. a more perfect version of the past. >> reporter: other critics have called their old-fashioned designs a passing trend. but this couple who is married to each other say their designs like their buildings are here to stay. >> i think in five years there

will be three people doing it. in ten years there will be 500 people doing design firms 69 i think it's a cultural shift that will last a long time. >> reporter: whether it's new built to old standards or an old building saved for a new generation, the effect is often the same. great buildings move us. >> historic architecture is part of our culture, just the way art, music, literature, these are all parts of our culture. architect tour is the only one that's around us every time all the time and does its magic on us every day. i think people really want the buildings to perform magic. makes their heart lift up for a moment as they walk past it to make them feel good even if they never virginia reason to go inside. >> osgood: coming up "in living color" by design. ♪music playing

>> osgood: one of miami's architectural treasures is this colorful gem from the 1960s, the bacardi building was designed... now the headquarters of the national young arts foundation, the building itself like this painting reminds us of the importance of color in design. susan spencer of "48 hours" paints us a picture. >> reporter: when psychologist

toby israel designed her kitchen, she included something that often stumped her guests. do people walk in here and say, oh, my god, there's a tree in your kitchen. >> yes, it's not something everybody has has in their home. >> reporter: putting a tree in the kitchen might not be for everyone but it's rooted in her idea that design should hark back to favorite places because that makes us happier. >> trees meant something to me as a child. i used to play for hours after school in a wonderful woods across the street from my house. >> reporter: psychologist israel specializes in design. spend time on her couch and you'll figure out what yours should look like. >> i personally am very dismayed when i seem people just following kind of slavishly what they see in design magazines because it's a look, it's a trend. it's not really about what's in people's minds, hearts and memories. >> we create worlds around us

that are extensions of our inner life. >> reporter: psycho analyst mark gerald says the interplay between design and emotion sometimes even plays an accidental role in therapy. >> a patient might, sitting in a psycho analysts office for three or four years, one day say, oh, when did you get that new picture on the wall? and it turns out the picture has been there all along. that's part of the psycho analytic process that you are finding things that have been there all along but were not available to awareness. >> reporter: gerald is also a photographer. and for a decade he has taken pictures of colleagues' offices all over the world. he's discovered a few psycho analysts who consciously use design as a tool of the trade. >> one of the analysts that i photographed, he has a sequence of images of the blasting of the

eye tommic bomb. >> that would scare me to death. it might scare one person to death and another person might welcome something very eruptive in themselves (explosion). >> reporter: gerald prefers a much more soothing approach, starting with the walls. >> they've always been painted with benjamin moore sweet innocence, a color that i find very conducive to my own analytic state of being, of being able to listen. >> reporter: just the color of the room can play a huge role in how we feel and act. paint the walls blue and studies show you may be more creative. paint them red and you may be more vigilant or even more sexy. change to green to calm yourself down. but if you really want something off the wall, paint those walls a certain shade of pink.

>> pink is the name of a color, a very specific color and i have that color in front of me. bubble gum pittsburgh penguin toe business mol pink. >> reporter: so bright it prompted adam alter, an assistant professor at new york university stern school of business, to write a book. this is a thoroughly obnoxious color. >> a horrible color. no one likes the color. >> reporter: but it seems to have magical powers. in 1979, psychologists discovered that painting prison cells with drunk tank pink would calm down even the rowdiest inmate. it worked in classrooms too. research has confirmed its curious effects. >> so they went and ran a study with 153 young healthy men. they had them look at pieces of pink cardboard. when they looked at the pink cardboard almost all of them were significantly weaker when they gripped a hand grip measure. >> reporter: word spread quickly to the world of college

football. >> even to this day the university of iowa still has this visiting locker room painted in bright pink with porcelain, bright pink urin manies and lockers. the thought was at half time or before the game when the visitors arrived they would be calmed and weighing ened by the color. >> reporter: why does it work? some of the researchers believe it's biological in origin. there's something about the way this color reacts with our eyes, brains and physiology that weaken us. another alternative is it's based on the association. perhaps if you're a strong, healthy male it makes you think of femininity. >> reporter: so next time you remodel you might want to rethink pink. reconsider that picture. reinstate that tree in the kitchen. and remember, what's on your walls could decide what's on your mind.

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richard schlesinger looks at work spaces past and present. >> reporter: you may not know the company's name but you almost certainly know herman miller's products, whether you know it or not. they've made millions of these chairs and some of the most iconic designs of the past century. >> this is a stand-up desk. roll-top is a very unique feature. >> reporter: brian walker is the ceo of herman miller which has such a storied miss er to it maintains and archive. >> i hope my key works, right? reporter: these are the things the company wants to remember. >> they're all sort of recognizable. i've seen these chairs all over the place. >> reporter: but there are some things it might want to forget. this is where the office cubicle was developed. it all started innocently enough with a designer named bob probst

who in the late '60s came up with what he called the action office. >> you moved it. you changed it with you. >> what exactly is action office? >> i'm walking through it right now. >> reporter: in 1972 a a company film promoted the action office as a place where workers could mingle with each other, and the walls were supposed to be easily movable. even welcoming. >> why not all this in one office. >> reporter: businesses liked the part about the walls. just not the part about the flexibility. >> a lot of us in business want to have uniformity. it was easier to make these things follow the same pattern. >> reporter: thus was born in the '70s the cubicle farm, squared off, soul-killing monuments to monotony. the cube lickal became reviled and ridiculed. and the center piece of the dilbert comic strip. over the years it became almost stylish to bash these style-less

cubes. few remarks about cubicles have been as he will kept as this. not all organizations are intelligent and progressive. they make little bitty cubicles and stuff people in them. barren, rat-hole places. the man who said that was robert probst. do you wish he hadn't said that? don goman is executive vice president of herman miller. >> i think that's a very appropriate comment because these tools, these systems are like a tool kit that can be used in good and bad ways. >> reporter: after selling roughly 10 billion dollars worth of cubicles, herman miller thinks it knows what's next. it's a lot like what probst had in mind back in the '60s. this is their office. it's open. it's airy and there's not a cubicle in sight. parts of it look more like a living room or a star bucks than

an office. it was designed by lori g., a company vice president. i can't believe i'm asking this. why does this work better than a cubicle culture? >> you know, it really works better because it's all about the speed of innovation and the connectedness to other people. >> reporter: nobody has a private office. nobody. not even the ceo. this is your office? >> this is my new corner office. i just moved in about two months ago. >> reporter: in the coming weeks, don's engineers at herman miller will unveil new looks for offices with walls that really are movable. >> you can move it around as you need. it really is is light. look at this. >> reporter: and workplaces that are completely open. both physically and metaphorically you're tearing down walls. >> that's right. reporter: but herman miller knows what can happen to what seemed like great ideas, so it probably makes good business sense that in one whole section of their factory, they are still

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>> from miami, it's a sunday morning by design. >> osgood: welcome to viscaya. it was designed in the style of an italian renaissance villa and built between 1914 and 1916 by roughly 1,000 men. the house boasts 34 rooms filled with antiques. all in all an ample retreat for the man who spent every winter here from 1916 until his death in 1925. it's now a museum. its dozens of rooms could accommodate a very large family of em generations. of course today's designers of multigenerational homes have to do with a lot less. anna westerner shows us how they do it. >> this house really has two master suites. >> in 2003 connecticut residents tammy and mario built a home to

accommodate multiple generations of their family. it has separate spaces for tammy's father and her adult sister plus room for their son and daughter. >> family is what life is all about. >> reporter: they had wanted to buy an existing home but couldn't find one that met their needs. ten years later, they have plenty of company. 50 million americans live in multigenerational homes just like this family. many want homes that fit their expanded families. now builders are trying to provide them. just north of tucson we met alan jones. >> i mean, if you came up to this home standing right here looking at the home you would think this home was no different than any other home. >> reporter: but it is. just off the main entrance, a second door leads to an apartment built under the same roof. >> all right. trump is red. >> reporter: which was part of the appeal for retired school

teacher tom moster and his father lee. you're right down the hall, lee? >> yeah. real close right here. we don't even lock the door. >> reporter: you trust him that much. >> yes, i trust him. reporter: tom moved into this 3100 square foot home with his wife kristin last year. his father lee moved in too to the separate but connected apartment. >> we have our separate places. he has a kitchen. he has a garage. he has laundry facilities. yet we're connected. so there's independence and yet we can see each other when we choose to. >> reporter: and close proximity was critical a few months ago when 82-year-old lee returned from a night of bowling white as a sheet. >> i called the doctor. they did an e.k.g. he needed a pacemaker. so by living close by and doing things more together, i think i was on top of it.

>> now you're stronger than ever. >> growing old you just get a little bit tired. >> can you give some to grandma. reporter: the family liked the idea so much, lee's daughter diane, tom's sister moved in next door. her in-laws took the separate apartment. >> we're committed to our families. he want to be there more for them. this is what we choose to do. >> reporter: the arrangement lets the family avoid a difficult choice. >> bye, grandpa. reporter: 90-year-old t.w., diagnosed with alzheimer's disease in 2006 is now able to stay with his family and his wife of 70 years millie. what is that like for you, millie, to know that your husband now instead of going into a facility is able to be here with you. >> he loves being with the grand kids. the little grand kids make his day. >> reporter: multigenerational homes like these range from 200

to 400,000. but can save families money. they maintain one home instead of two. and diane and millie weeks believe living under the same roof did something else too. >> are you just as close as you were before or are you closer now after moving into a house again? >> i think closer. don't you think? >> i think so. osgood: thomas jefferson monticello, frank lloyd wright's falling water, philip johnson's glass house. all examples of fine home building. martha teichner introduces to another master of the craft. >> it's two-and-a-half stories. dormers across the top. a lot of nice windows. >> reporter: it's a bird house.

tom burke made to look mike martha stewart's home in bedford new york with 40 little bird bedrooms. >> she's often seen standings right on top of the porch there between those two posts and the whole house is bedford gray. that's one of her paint colors. >> reporter: now look at this. and this. 15 years ago tom burke gave up building houses for people, and his career took flight, so to speak. >> this is my augusta national clubhouse bird house. where the masters golf tournament is played. >> reporter: more than a dozen burke-built bird houses -- try and say that fast -- are on display along the river front in downtown will moncton delaware where burke lives. >> the perfect thing was the door i found. >> reporter: he transformed the weathered door into the olsen farm, made famous by the late

andrew wyatt in his painting christina's world. three generations of andrew wyatt's family have lived and painted near chad's ford pennsylvania not far from wilmington. >> andrew wyatt painted a picture of this in 1968. >> reporter: so far he's done eight wyett inspired bird houses. compare this painting with tom burke's. >> this event on christmas morning, the thing was brought in. i first i didn't know what the hell it was. >> reporter: it was, of course, a bird house. andrew wyeth's last gift to his son jamie before he died. jamie took it to his home in maine to remind him of his home in delaware. jamie wyeth has painted lots of birth houses which to him resemble doll houses. >> it's an extension that grown-ups can have a doll house. but it's for the birds, of

course. the birds have an abode and aaddress. >> reporter: yes, of course. whrook way up there. see it? look way up there. see it? as it dresses for... as addresses for tom burke bird houses go, this is pretty fancy. new york's fifth avenue. the 17th floor roof terrace of a wealthy socialite who prefers to remain nameless. a burke bird house owner whose name we do know, film maker george lucas, as in star wars, his a replica of his house at sky walker ranch nine feet square, weighing more than 500 pounds. burke's workshop is in the basement of the condo building where he lives. he gets to use the space free in exchange for doing the recycling. >> i made the whole thing out of

parquet flooring. >> reporter: meaning what his neighbors throw out he appropriates including the wheelchair. a bird house can take months to build. >> this house is a bird house i'm doing inspired by the home in the tv show "this old house." >> today we'll get started on a brand new project. >> reporter: commissions can cost up to $20,000. enough to make you think twice about putting a tom burke bird house outside. >> i've built houses that don't have holes in him. i've had to plug up the holes before. take big corks and stick inside the holes. >> reporter: why? because the people don't want the birds around their property. >> reporter: wait a minute. that's when they become a sculpture. >> reporter: which begs the question: are birds house proud? or will a few twigs do just fine?

next, bells are ringing. of store management started as -five pt hourly associates. there's opportunity here. i can use walmart's education benefits to get a degree, maybe work in it, or be an engineer, helping walmart conserve energy. even today, when our store does well, i earn quarterly bonuses. when people look at me, i hope they see someone working their way up. vo: opportunity, that's the real walmart.

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religion is at their heart, and at the heart of this town is a product that owes its success to never changing its design. (bell ringing) bells. they've been making bells here for 1,000 years. the foundry cast its first one in 1339 and is now the third oldest family-run business in the world. this man is a 25th generation bell maker. >> what is special about this factory is that we use the same techniques and the same materials that were used during immediate evil times. >> working conditions don't seem to have changed that much either. dust, heat and lots of noise. the continual roar of the fan keeping the fire hot enough to

melt ingots into liquid bronze. >> we take particular care of the quality of the bell and also of the decoration because bells are a part of the world of art. the beauty of a bell is important. because it tells a story that will continue for hundreds of years. >> reporter: this company produces about 50 bells a year using a technique known as lost wax. a brick core is slathered with clay. wax designs to imprint the decoration of the bell are stuck in place. another layer of clay goes on. after it hardens the wax is melted leaving an imprint on the inside of the bell. the form is set into a pit and covered in stand. the vital moment timed to perfection is called fusion at 2,200 degrees fahrenheit. the seering heat, intense brightness and erupting gases

look like dante's version of hell but are what are in effect the calls of heaven. 90% of the bells made here are for the catholic church which is why they have the title pontifical foundry. the priest prays and offers blessings for the fusion. but the real secret to bell design is perfect geometry according to master bell maker antonio. >> the diameter of the base must be equal to the height. the diameter of the top must always be half the height. the thickness of the bell where the clapper strikes, it is always 1/14th of the diameter. >> bells are thought to have originated in china in about 1,000 b.c greek and latin scholars mention them and there are references to bells in the old testament. they became part of the cristian liturgy in about the sixth venturi. the secret to tones was worked

out in the 15th century. perfectly cast bells do more than clang. they are fine musical instruments. antonio says a true founder can play every note. and if you don't believe him, listen to what this 75-year-old can do with a hammer. jingle bells, of course, and beethoven's ode to joy. just for samples. perfect design, unchanged for tennyson turees. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

>> osgood: there are gardens all across the grounds of this house. who says gardens can only be found on the ground? erin moriarty of "48 hours"

lives our sights. >> reporter: in cities like new york where sky scrapers dominate the landscape, people have to go to great lengths or great heights to create gardens. >> we're on the 76th floor of the time warner center. >> reporter: have you ever designed a garden like this? >> no. i didn't even know it existed. initially when i saw it, i realized it was a balcony to the city of new york, most of the most extraordinary open spaces i've seen in the city. you can see the sun rise. you can see the sun setting the other direction. >> reporter: architect designed what is believe to be the loftiest outdoor space in manhattan. but to turn it into a garden he needed help. he may not be the architect to stars but he works right under

them creating the unique garden high in the sky. >> the greenery softens the architecture. without this, it's just a roof. >> reporter: more than 600 feet above the ground, he ran into obstacles he had never encountered. you were going to compare in real life what this climate is like. trying to put a roof top garden on here. what would you compare it to? >> the side of a mountain. this is like the unprotected side of the mountain so that's why a lot of things don't grow because they get... the wind just hits them and they dry out. >> reporter: and then there was the problem of the fine arts sculpture purchased as the center piece of the garden. her name in trench means the air, a bit ironic since she is more than seven feet long and weighs well over a ton. a duplicate once stood in the guggenheim museum in new york. the city wouldn't allow a

helicopter to take her up. >> so i had to go through the elevator. they did the measurements on the elevator. they were saying prayers because they had already purchased the sculpture. then these pavers are four inches thick. we had to replace every single one of them because they didn't match the color of the inside. >> reporter: of course you had to have the floor out here match the floor inside. >> of course. reporter: while ornamental gardens on this scale are out of reach for most of us, throughout the city there are breath taking, hidden wonders of greenery. designed not to block out the city but to enhance it. >> it is a completely different new york. >> you have a stage. the stage is set. when you look around you see the empire state. you see the chrysler. you see this architecture. then the plants become the actors within that stage. >> reporter: 22 floors above the east river on a magical roof top, complete with griff ons and

spires, he has created a constantly changing vegetable garden for the owners. >> in 30 days these will be little radishes. we rotate the crops. >> reporter: did you grow anything out on a roof? >> pretty much. reporter: tomatoes? definitely. cabbage, kale, anything. tropicals, bananas. >> reporter: come on. banana. >> banana trees, yep. we do ba fa know. >> reporter: vegetables require an elaborate irrigation system. again, he encountered problems unique to gardens in the sky. with few birds to eat tomato horn worms he had to remove the damaging pest by hand. >> within two days it can completely defoliate, eat the entire leaves of a tomato plant. >> reporter: but the garden's owner said creating the perfect garden, just like any good design, sometimes takes time. >> i think just the way new

yorkers find each other, i think insects and birds will find my terrace. >> osgood: ahead, wallpaper. on a roll. ,,,,,,,,,,,,

>> if ornate wall decorations are a little beyond your budget, you can always try wallpaper. rita braver samples some of the latest designs. >> reporter: if wallpaper equals boring in your book, well, check out a quirky brand called flavor paper which can surprise and amuse. take city park. >> you've got your pigeons, your rats, fire hydrants and marking meters. >> reporter: or how about this

one filled with needles, knives and blades? >> this has gone on a lot of different spaces as well. the most terrifying being over a female lawyer's bed in san francisco whom i would not want to face in court. this is the master bath. >> reporter: flavor paper owner john cherman's obsession with wallpaper can be seen in the back of his brooklyn apartment. located above the store or the factory to be exact, where custom designs are hand screened for hipsters like musician lenny kravitz. >> that was sort of a nice jumping-off point for us. it took things out of being your grandmother's wallpaper to immediately being we make rock star wallpaper. >> reporter: while some historians believe wallpaper was first used in ancient china, it became really popular in england in the mid 18th century and soon made its way to the american colonies.

>> this is one of the earliest american made papers we have. >> reporter: richard nylander, of historic new england a preservation group. >> probably made in boston about 1785. >> reporter: he says colonists started producing their own papers. >> the death of washington set off a real craze. >> reporter: by 1800 when this design was made to commemorate the death of george washington, the great american wallpaper craze had begun. >> it took off. and most everybody had wallpaper. from 1850 into the early 20th century. >> reporter: after the 1950s, a lot of grown-ups turned off on wallpaper. with images of cards and cigarettes. >> this is called a nursery paper. >> reporter: but children's paper has managed to stay in style. from this 19th century creation featuring goldilocks... >> she really likes siamese fighting fish. so there's one. >> reporter: ... to this new custom design depicting one

young manhattan girl's favorite things. >> this is the seal at the central park zoo. >> reporter: the paper was designed by payton turner, who with her husband and fellow artist brian casper found flat ver nan lar after they discovered a mutual interest in wallpaper. >> it sets of mood, sets the scene, creates an atmosphere. that really interested me. >> reporter: since a magazine ran a feature about her, turner has become known most of all for one of a kind wallpaper that she hand crafts from children's stickers. is there a big demand? >> i don't know. but i love what happens when they're sort of all referenced together in this little bouquet. this strange little world. >> reporter: the strange and inventive little world of

wallpaper. >> osgood: coming up... i do think of myself as someone who has a very specific style that people know. >> reporter: fashions, by jennifer lopez. and later? a simple question: how old is the oldest person you've known? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone who's lived well into their 90s. and that's a great thing. but even though we're living longer, one thing that hasn't changed much is the official retirement age. ♪ the question is how do you make sure you have the money you need to enjoy all of these years. ♪

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design world had the motto less is more to which another architect replied less is a bore. >> you love color? i'll give you color. you like form, i'll give you the form. >> reporter: his hotel with its curves and seductive swimming pools gave modernism permission to be fun and even glamorous. >> i thought i would find you in a good hands. >> felix, how are you? reporter: today the fountain blue remains a pleasure palace by the sea and a landmark of american design. >> the view from on high. a view worthy of a top super star like jennifer lopez. who also knows a thing or two about fashion design. lee cowan talks with j-lo. >> can you tell us about your outfit. >> reporter: it leaves very little to the imagination. that green dress that john fer lopez wore to the grammies back

in 2000 was daring design to say the least. but fashion has always been j-lo's fashion. stylishly showing off those famous curves both on stage and off. ♪ we can do anything we want ♪ we can do anything we want so live it up ♪ >> reporter: with the release of her latest single "live it up" with rapper this past week lopez isn't just back to making music. she's back at the design table too. >> my job i feel like i always have to wear things that hurt. my collection is made of all the things that make me. >> reporter: she innked a multimillion dollar design deal with kohl's two years ago. >> feel it. it's kind of great. >> reporter: now you name it and her name is is on it. she's even designed her own brand of bedding. >> it's glamorous.

reporter: you've got sportswear, dresses, handbags, jewelry, shoes. sleep wear. >> yes. reporter: does it get overwhelming? >> of course it's overwhelming sometimes. yes, you're right. at times i'm like, whoa, what am i taking on? i'm taking on so much. i feel like life is overwhelming and you can't be afraid of that. >> reporter: she got the attention of forbes magazine that put her at the top of its list of the most powerful celebrities last year in part because her deal was so big with kohl's. >> we have a 20-year contract with seven-year options. i don't know. who likes to talk about this stuff. not me. i just like the clothes. let's design the clothes. let's have fun and what colors are we going to use? that's my fun part. >> on this side of jennifer. reporter: that fun part is only a fraction of her design drive. as the chief creative officer,

j-lo is helping design a network too. nuvo tv the first english language cable station geared to a latino audience. it seems like anything that has a creative design bent, you're all ear it. >> that's my thing. how are you doing, houston? reporter: lopez broke on to the scene in 1997. in a biography of the late music star. she soon branched into her own music. and her career took off. in january 2001 she made history. her album j-lo hit number one the same week she had the number one movie. the wedding planner. >> what the hell is is this? sunless tanning cream. wedding tomorrow. you do the math. >> stop crying. a quarter cup of lemon juice, a half a cup of salt. >> i can be an artist when i have to be an artist but i can

also be sensible and be a businessperson and kind of go by numbers when i have to. you know. >> reporter: although they are hard to ignore, j-lo's interest in design didn't start with jewelry or clothes. it started with a fragrance. at the time when you wanted to do it, people weren't really so hot on the idea. we're kind of past that. you kept pushing it. >> when i started as an actress, yes. when i wanted to do music, it was like actresses don't do music. well, i wanted music. i got offered a loreal contract. real actresses and singers don't do that. i feel like i want to do. you should not do american idol. that would be the end of everything. i'm like, no, i kind of feel like i want to do that too. you know what i mean? >> jennifer lopez. reporter: that popular stint on american idol turned out to

be a pretty good business decision too. >> i felt like people really got to know my real personality and who i really was. the things that were important to me. we're going to work on that. i was an emotional person and i had feelings and that i liked to laugh and that i could be loving. you know what you mean? she's a real person. >> reporter: but despite running her business empire now at 43 jennifer lopez is most focused on designing something else. a family. she has five-year-old twins with her former husband mark anthony. kids haven't slowed her down but they have changed her priorities a bit. do you feel like you're a workaholic. >> absolutely. reporter: you do? yeah. but people use that like a dirty word. i think we're supposed to work a lot in this life. you know what i mean? that's what it's about. it is about being productive in this life and doing something with your life and being proud of what you're doing with your life that makes you, you know, kind of an interesting and

fulfilled person at the end of the day. when >> osgood: pack your bags. we're off to china in a moment. "come straight to the table." i say, "it's breakfast time, not playtime." "there's fruit, milk and i'm putting a little nutella on your whole-wheat toast." funny, that last part gets through. [ male announcer ] serving nutella is quick and easy. its great taste comes from a unique combination of simple ingredients like hazelnuts, skim milk and a hint of cocoa. okay, plates in the sink, grab your backpacks -- [ male announcer ] nutella. breakfast never tasted this good. wthe sadness, anxiety,e pleasthe loss of interest. the fatigue and aches and pains.

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>> osgood: the lincoln road mall is a miami beach landmark. designed in the 1960s, the mall did fall into decline but then it came roaring back strongly. not unlike some of the much much older neighborhoods our seth doane has visited in china. >> reporter: in this part of china's capital, life unfolds as it has for years. really venturis. spring warmth lures vendors and even prompts a change in daily routine, filling the streets and further jamming these narrow

passages. >> this area is actually the oldest commercial street that does exist in beijing. >> reporter: tony cheng was our guide through their lan rit of hutong. what does it mean? >> it means narrow alleyways. it it should be no wider than non-horse steps. >> reporter: that's about 18 feet. money hutong is much smaller. >> there used to be 12 banks in the alleyways. >> reporter: why is it so narrow way? >> if anyone tried to rob the bank they will have hard time to get out. >> reporter: that's great. these hutongs redefine your typical old part of town. some date back as much as 800 years to the ming dynasty. chen offers tours with his company "stretch a leg." these maze-like hutongs were created by the outer walls of

homes that faced inward to courtyards. from a design perspective, how are these hutongs laid out? >> it was for the emperor. the forbidden city was located right in the center of the city. and then as the social status gets lower, you live further and further away from the emperor. >> reporter: but that social order was changed after the communist revolution of 1949. the communist party moved multiple families, office and factory workers, into homes eye long these hutongs. as beijing prospered and prepared for the 2008 olympics, it was cheaper to destroy than to renovate these old neighborhoods. there were once as many as 3600hutongs in 1949, just a third about 1100 remain today. but a new generation is fueling

a rebirth here. how much are these neighborhoods, these hutongs changing? >> a lot. reporter: lynn-lynn renovated this courtyard home and brought her creative design and branding business jelly mom here. >> for me it's finding that balance to keep what is the best and at the same time give a contemporary relevance. >> reporter: along these hutongs doors can reveal trendy, almost magical interiors. at a design studio meets high-end store, a thermo sensitive tea table sells for more than $1,000. a few doors down from this local barber offer being $2 haircuts is my-bar where mixologist jeff gee makes the drinks. >> sometimes it's really modern. sometimes, you know, hutong is really old. mixes the old things and the new things together. >> reporter: new next to old.

the "new york times" called these hutongs brooklyn in beijing but this is hip. 8th century in the making. >> osgood: ahead, miniature golf courses. no small challenge. have rheumatoid arthritis, can you start the day the way you want? can orencia (abatacept) help? could your "i want" become "i can"? talk to your rheumatologist. orencia reduces many ra symptoms like pain, morning stiffness and the progression of joint damage. it's helped new ra patients and those not helped enough by other treatments. do not take orencia with another biologic medicine for ra due to an increased risk of serious infection. serious side effects can occur including fatal infections. cases of lymphoma and lung cancer have been reported. tell your doctor if you are prone to or have any infection like an open sore or the flu

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>> osgood: talk about a big sand trap. talk about a big water hazard. how about some miniature golf? here's bill geist. >> there are designers for just about everything these days, but mini-golf course designers, who knew? >> there you go. reporter: so this is safari. what does that mean? >> it went with an african theme. the alligators, the monkeys. the shark fins and the hip owe heads. >> reporter: glen lynn has designed more than 400 mini-golf courses for the harris miniature golf course company. >> get in the hole. reporter: like this one in essex county new jersey. what happened to the windmills? >> the windmills are pretty much of a thing of the past. >> reporter: replaced by huge eye-catching plastic mammals. >> water is really i think the big trend. waterfalls, water features.

>> reporter: glen designs with skill, imagination. >> you can really see clearly the water features. >> reporter: yeah. and in one course he's installing at the jersey shore a goodly amount of emotion. >> i grew up on the jersey shore. there was definitely a feeling of, you know, i really want to help these people get back on their feet. >> reporter: hurricane sandy ob obliterated many areas of the jersey shore including this golf course. >> this is a family business. this family has been here since the '60s. to meet with the father and just see the look on his face, devastation. >> reporter: when you first saw the scene here after sandy, what do you see? >> for bill it was a shock. i never thought i would see anything to that level. >> reporter: owners bill and joanne. >> i try not to think about it too often but it was 50 years of work and memories just washed away in a matter of a few hours that night.

>> reporter: how long did it take you to get over that? >> i'll let you know. reporter: the loss of a miniature golf course may seem trivial amid the massive devastation. but the locals see barnacle bill's with its arcade and restaurant as an anchor of this small beach front community. it was the kind of place where parents could call joanne and ask her to send their children home. >> my boys grew up here at barnacle bill's. >> reporter: john manly was one of those parents. >> barnacle bills is part of the ortlly beach. >> reporter: there was never a doubt in your mind about rebuild something. >> not really. this is what we do. this is what we've done. it would have been the worst possible time to quit. things are progressing here. >> reporter: so they hired glen lynn. who promised the course would somehow be open by memorial day.

>> memorial day is coming up fast. we are going to have this course carpeted and open and ready for play. barnacle bill will be on hole numb we were 9. >> reporter: on the course the lone survivor of the storm was barnacle bill himself. >> we had a lot of people calling that were very concerned if had survived or not. >> reporter: he was wintering indoors and being fiberglass withstood his emergence in seven feet of flood water. >> barnacle bill lives. reporter: barnacle bill's triumphant return in the nerk few days will mark the 50th anniversary of the course. >> this is our way of showing we're not going to quit. we're going to come back and be stronger than ever. >> reporter: like swallows to capistrano, his annual return is a sure sign that summer is nigh at the jersey shore.

>> osgood: coming up, a descressing down from nancy giles. can febreze eliminate the toughest odors? to find out we filled this car with trash, attached a febreze car vent clip, and let in real people. it smells good. like clean laundry. i could sit in this all day. [ laughs ] febreze keeps your car fresh. breathe happy.

>> osgood: this stairway in the lobby of the hotel was designed by architect morris lapidus to be a stairway to nowhere. it existed to provide a grand back drop for elegantly dressed ladies making their entrance. it's a tradition from a distant past. but our nancy giles thinks that's a shame. >> there was a time when a woman really made an entrance. remember? >> how do you do, my dear? eads turned. it wasn't for a red carpet event either. it was for dinner or any occasion. >> boy, mom, you sure look nice. thank you. reporter: what happened? these days anything goes. shorts and flip flops are fine for any occasion.

>> it fits beautifully. for any occasion. >> it fits beautifully. reporter: dressing up is a quaint and by-gone custom. have we become a nation of slobs? >> my students very often are floored by the beauty of some of the vintage pictures that i show them. >> reporter: professor linda teaches a class called "a nation of slobs." at the university of notre dame in south bend, indiana. >> this is from 1934. reporter: her mission is to revive the lost art of dressing. >> so women who lived in the mid of the american countryside could actually get fashions and styles all the way from paris. i think we've just lost a lot of the kinds of design details, color details that used to be part of a design vocabulary. >> reporter: proper dressing was so important, it was taught in school. from first grade through college. >> there was a junior high

school girl. all schoolmates glamorous displays not only eyes but eyebrows raised. >> historically speaking that's like the first artist rendition of mean girls. what do you wear down here? bearing all, she says, is not an artistic ideal. >> there's a happy medium between wearing a burka and running around half naked. >> reporter: she sews her own clothes. she has to because dresses with beautiful details like sleeves with six button cuffs are hard to find. what happened to gloves? >> i think until the 1960s gloves were considered a requirement. >> reporter: and what about hats? >> you were considered slightly undressed if you didn't have a hat on. >> reporter: were the '60s in anyway involved in taking us down this spiral slobby? >> the '60s were involved. actually because of the suburbs, casual clothing became more normal for people to wear all the time.

>> reporter: and the demand for simpler and cheaper clothes. >> the style moved towards simplicity and eventually slipped into stupidity. >> reporter: like these fashions from the '60s. >> if she's six years old or 26? hard to tell the difference. >> my supervisor told me dress up for linda's class. she thinks notre dame students dress like slobs. >> reporter: to judge from the professor's students her one-woman crusade to rescue the nation from its own sloppiness is bearing fruit. >> i don't sleep in pajama bottoms. i wouldn't wear them to the dining hall. >> reporter: do you think it's an intentional i don't care kind of move. >> i get a bit of a laugh when i see people in the dining hall wearing their pajama bottoms. >> you put make-up on but couldn't change out of your pajamas. i don't believe you. >> reporter: is this the kind of statement you want to make or is this? make an effort because a little style can go a long way.

>> osgood: contributor nancy giles. nowm let's good to bob scheiffer in washington for a look at what's ahead on "face the nation." >> schieffer: a white house engulfed in controversy. we'll have some questions, maybe we'll get some answers. >> osgood: next week here on "sunday morning" it's no illusion. it's magician david copperfield. [ agent smith ] i've found software that intrigues me. it appears it's an agent of good. ♪ [ agent smith ] ge software connects patients to nurses to the right machines while dramatically reducing waiting time. [ telephone ringing ] now a waiting room is just a room. [ static warbles ]

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